Today I turned 21. You might say, "Nick, why are you writing a LJ entry and not out getting smashed?" Well, it just so happens that getting smashed is not my intention. Until this evening I had been struggling with two dramatically different courses of action: 1) Not drinking anything just to spite everyone (this I decided when I was 16), and 2) ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got a new CD player installed in my car. It can also hook up to my iPod. I have music again! Yay!

It's been a month since the start of school and I still haven't updated everyone on the events of my summer, so I'm going to do that now. I'll try to keep it shorter than the usual Massive Updates ( Read more... )

This May I went to go see my first Bob Dylan concert. I thought it was incredible and vowed to see him again when he next returned to North Carolina. A few months later, I checked his website to discover that he was doing one of his Ballpark Tours - and one of the stops would be at Ernie Shore Field in Winston-Salem, about half an hour away from ( Read more... )

Today I brought a CD to listen to in my car. Fiona Apple's "When The Pawn," to be precise. How did it sound? I can't say, because my CD player WON'T FUCKING PLAY ANY CD'S I FUCKING PUT IN IT. And even when it DOES play (usually after inserting the CD fifteen or twenty times) it won't play more than the first 20 or 30 seconds of the first song ( Read more... )

My mother has recently become obsessed with me leaving down the toilet seat. She reminds me every time I go. Why exactly do women want people to put down the seat for them? Can they not do it themselves? Or are they just too lazy to check in the first place? If they can't even bother to take the time to look and see whether or not the seat is down ( Read more... )

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA ( Read more... )

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST ( Read more... )

Open up your music player and put it on random and then post the songs. I picked 25 as my number. Seemed like a good solid number ( Read more... )

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or playlist or whatever on random ( Read more... )